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Pendower

Photo of Pendower, a swimming spot near Portloe, Cornwall, south west England.

Pendower

© Rob Farrow / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

© Rob Farrow / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Pendower

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Pendower is an official bathing spot in Cornwall. The water was rated Excellent when last classified. Water quality here can dip after heavy rain. The county has 90 designated bathing waters; this is one. It lies within Cornwall National Landscape National Landscape.

For more of the same, Porthcurnick and Porthluney are close by. The closest station is Falmouth Docks, 9.8 km to the south-west.

More at the Environment Agency's water quality profile

More places to visit near Pendower

Photo of the Cornwall National Landscape, a National Landscape in Cornwall, south west England.Highlight

Cornwall National Landscape

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Padstow

The best of Cornwall's coast and moor, gathered into a dozen protected stretches around the county

Photo along the South West Coast Path, a 630-mile National Trail running from Minehead to Poole, south west England.Highlight

South West Coast Path

National Trail

630 miles around England's toe — the longest and most demanding of the National Trails.

here · spans 4 counties

Photo of Tregothnan, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Truro, Cornwall, south west England.Highlight

Tregothnan

House & garden near Truro

The site of Britain's only tea plantation, grown in a sheltered estuary valley.

5 km NW

Photo of Hotel Tresanton, a restaurant near St Mawes, Cornwall, south west England.Highlight

Hotel Tresanton

Restaurant · With rooms near St Mawes

Olga Polizzi's seaside hotel restaurant in the Roseland village of St Mawes.

7.4 km SW

Photo of St Mawes Castle, a ruined castle in Cornwall, south west England.Highlight

St Mawes Castle

Castle near St Mawes

Clover-shaped Tudor fort on the Roseland.

7.8 km SW

Photo of Truro, a village in Cornwall, south west England.Highlight

Truro

Village

Cornwall's only city, a Georgian county town of cobbled streets gathered beneath the three spires of its Victorian Gothic cathedral.

9.5 km NW · Cornwall